We were taking off from IAH to home. I'd kind of fallen asleep. I was awaken by a really loud noise and jolt. I woke up alarmed, but then just though,"Oh we must have just taken off; the jolt was the landing gear retracting."

Well, no, apparently not. After seeing one of the flight attendants run down the aisle to look over my shoulder at the wing, I notice we're cloud level, and everyone's just a little too alert and concerned-looking.

The second I start to go back to my stupor, one of the flight attendant announces something like, "I know everyone's alarmed by the loud noise you just heard the loud noise coming from the plane. Everything looks okay. We were going through some rough weather, but everything looks all right. We're going to go on to L.A."

*screech* hickory what?!

Actually, the only part I really honed in on was "We're going to go on to..."

I like to think everything is normal. "We're going to go on to..." means something really happened and we've decided we can probably make it to the next freeway exit. WHAT?!

So now I'm noticing what's going on a bit more. Everyone's seems shaken. People are talking. After a minute or so of the plane bouncing around, which seems like normal turbulence to me, the pilot comes on, "Blah Blah. We're at blah blah blah feet. No doubt, you heard the loud noise. We were going through a storm *muffle muffle muffle muffle* ...the plane is designed to handle lightning strikes. The flight attendants have checked the cabin. *muffle muffle muffle* static diffusers *muffle muffle* at the nose and rear of the plane *muffle muffle* All the instruments seem okay, and we're going to go ahead and press on to Los Angeles. Please sit back, but keep your seat belts securely fastened until we're through the turbulence. blah blah. blah"

Squeeze me what?

Anyway, I'm generally not alarmed by anything (yet) that's happened in the air, provided the flight crew seems cool; but at this point, every Seconds from Disaster and Air Emergency is playing in my head. I'm pretty sure I heard the narrator say, "David, feeling safe after hearing the pilot, reaches for his mp3 player. Little did he know, 'I'm with the skater boy, she said see you later boy' would be the last words he'd hear."

It's seriously one sadistic, fucked up god that sends surges of electricity through the air I'M JUST SAYIN. fucking, stupid, dick-head god

it may have. i really just brushed it off when it happened cuz i was sleeping. i just remember being awaken by a really loud noise and some screams. in my stupor i just thought it was the landing gear or some normal plane noise and plane n00bs overreacting.

eh, ever since the flight from hell, a.k.a. the non-stop flight from Narita to Atlanta, i hate flying. seldom am i subject to motion sickness, but two hours of non-stop turbulence 45 minutes into our flight, left me begging for death. can't stand the thought of flights anymore. worse yet, i was flying first class. i couldn't drink the alcohol or eat a damn thing. the "bag" was my closest friend, although it never had to be used.

I hate flying. The last time I flew JetBlue, their jet lost all power only 50 feet from the gangway backing out. It took 1 1/2 hours to get it turned back on and then we had to get in the back of the queue to take off. I got back home about 5 hrs later than scheduled. Like I said, I hate flying.